The project »Energie_Passagen« reproduces the linguistic space of
the city in form of a data flow. Hundreds of catchwords taken from
current newspaper reports appear in a projected »information flow«
and are spoken by artificial computer voices. As soon as passers-by
select individual words, thematically related networks of terms start
to perform in this flow, which can also be experienced as an
audiovisual echo. The text is thus detached from its linear context
and staged as a medial reading in urban space. More…